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echo: pro_video
to: DAN DEEMERT
from: TERRY SMITH
date: 1995-04-29 11:05:00
subject: Copyright Laws

 DD> Thanks for the info on copyright material.  BTW, what 
 DD> if you are using copyright music for a non-profit 
 DD> organization?  Is there a way around this so it is 
 DD> totally legal?  Thanx again
You could give (not sell) the organization your material for private review 
by a few officers perhaps, with a disclaimer that it's their problem to 
license public performance if needed.  Genessee Hospital reportedly got in 
some serious trouble when it was caught playing the radio into its PA system 
without licensing from ASCAP and BMI.  Some churches are careful to use only 
PD music, while others buy rights to some material.  
Non-profits include some rather large businesses.  If you were a vendor of 
some other form of goods or services, would you donate rather than sell to 
anyone who called you and offered to show proof of their 501(c)3 status?  
Terry
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